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Atriplex nummularia

AuthorityLindley
FamilyMagnoliopsida:Caryophyllidae:Caryophyllales:Chenopodiaceae
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Ecocrop code3552



Notes
SOURCES
Houerou H 1971 pp 16 [RAIN, KTMP]
B-Lennard E 1984 pp 155 326 382 456 [TEXT, RAIN, KTMP, DEP, DRA]
Aronson J 1989 pp 54 [SAL]
National AS 1975 pp 122 [USE, DEP, RAIN, KTMP, TEXT, SAL]
Malcolm C 1988 [SAL, RAIN]

GROWING PERIOD
Perennial shrub.

COMMON NAMES
Old man saltbush.

FURTHER INF
Old man saltbush is native of the pastoral zone of southern Australia. It can under irrigation produce 0.92 kg of consumable dry matter and 2.17 of total dry matter per m2 of water. Photosynthesis pathway C4.
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